Pride and Prejudice

This prompt generates text-free artwork. The title and author are composed separately afterward.

Use case: illustration-story.
Create ONE original literary cover ILLUSTRATION LAYER, not a finished cover. Exact title and author will be typeset later from font files. Portrait 2:3, exactly 1024 by 1536 pixels, PNG preferred. Flat edge-to-edge paper, no book mockup.
Art direction: quiet mid-century printmaking, broad confident shapes, irregular ink edges, very fine natural paper grain, matte warm ivory (#f1ede3). No more than TWO muted ink colours plus graphite linework and paper. Very few small details. An inhabitable spatial scene with weather, distance or absence, never a floating icon, logo, sticker or decorative emblem.
PRODUCTION COMPOSITION: reserve the ENTIRE TOP 43% (y=0 through660) as empty warm ivory for separate typography. All meaningful illustration occupies y=720 through1330, roughly 47%–87%. Entire bottom 9% (y=1398 through1536) stays clean, empty warm ivory for the author line. Scene may reach left/right edges inside its own area. No border or artificially white rectangle pasted over an image. Quiet space is part of the composition. Coherent at 180 pixels wide.
No text, letterlike marks, digits, signature, watermark, publisher logo, frames, collage, glossy 3D, photorealism, cute cartoon, ornate ornament or heavy distressed texture. No green. Make an original interpretation, not a copy of a published cover.

Work: Pride and Prejudice / 傲慢与偏见, by Jane Austen.
Emotional tension: Misjudgment becoming attention, restrained attraction expressed through social distance.
Scene: A spare Regency-era drawing-room floor, seen at a low oblique angle. Two simple elegant wooden chairs without upholstery, one dusty mauve at lower left and one slate violet at right, face at slightly different angles across a wide pale stripe of window light. Their long shadows almost touch in the middle. Only hint of a plain skirting board along the rear wall; no chandelier, no wall frames, no flowers. The whole room vignette lives between y=750 and1320 and reaches the side edges. Chair legs and backs must be few clear strokes, correctly grounded, not floating symbols.
Visual decision: Two differently angled chairs whose shadows almost meet across the empty floor.
Palette: #9d7f86 and #686b7c. Render as restrained printed inks, not glossy gradients.
Omit: Dancing silhouettes, faces, hearts, floral borders, lace, chandeliers, mansion facades and ornate chair carving.

Generated: 2026-10-16
Tool: OpenAI built-in image generation; exact model version not exposed by the tool.